The first edition of the NoSuchCon conference will take place in Paris
from May the 15th to May the 17th of 2013.

NSC is the badass hardcore technical security conference. Of death.

--[ Background:

We think hacking is a science, not an art. It's largely the science of
experimentation and self learning. Best effort is not enough anymore. The
number of hackers reaching the level where they can actually discover
things
by themselves has never been so high. And at the same time, the
signal-to-noise
ratio in our traditional communication channels (IRC, mailing lists,
conferences, informal gatherings...) has never been so low.

So we though we might give it a shot: we're trying to build a 0% bullsh!t
conference. It's tougher than one might expect, but with the help of many
(see in particular the support from our hardcore Programming Committee of
death), we are confident that passion will prevail and that we'll
eventually
learn something from each other :)

If you're tired of people making money on your back by monetizing your
research
whenever you go to a conference, we have good news: we're 100% non-profit.
We're also not affiliated with any .gov or .com or any other organization.
We work hard at night. Our aim is to learn stuff. If this
sounds a lot like your own life, we'd be happy to have you among us.

It's also worth remembering that hacking is *not* a competition. As such,
there is no winner or rockstar. All you'll find here is people
experimenting
and seeking truth in code and RFCs.

Finally, we'd like to insist on respect. Respect among attendees of course,
which goes without saying (we all share the same passion; let's not get
into ego problems and instead let's learn from each other. You know deep
inside
yourself that even though *you* certainly did your part of hard work, there
would be no computers or network without the help of many), but also for
researchers who come over, often from very far away, to present months
of late
night work to their peers. This is why NSC is strictly single track:
every talk
that makes it in deserves to be attended to, and everyone deserves to be
treated with equal esteem and respect. There's no such thing as a
rockstar at
NSC: if you're after fame and profit, we're sure you'll find many other
places
to go to these days.

--[ Press people / Media / Media Analysts / Bloggers:

NSC is not a top secret conference. You are welcome to come over and
participate. NSC staff will do their best to make your job easier.
Please, bear in mind that you'll have to comply with strict hacker ethics,
particularly in terms of privacy, personality rights and respect the
anonymity
of people who do not want to appear in your publications: you cannot take
pictures of people without their *prior* consent, and people do not
*have to*
answer to any question if they don't feel like it.

--[ Venue:

The NSC conference will be hosted in the French Communist Party's amazing
headquarters. This astonishing building was designed by the recently
deceased
Brazilian architect Oscar Niemeyer.

The aim of NSC is best summarized in 3 words: quality, quality and
research.
That, and hard work !

We believe that there is a place for quality independent security research
disclosure. We think that this place should be run on a non-profit basis.
We do our best to ensure that the chosen talks are of the upmost quality
thanks to the highly respected security researchers who form our selection
panel.

As a result, we hope to deliver in a 3 days single track conference some
seriously disruptive food for thoughts to security enthusiasts.

Whether you will like a given talk or not depends on several factors
involving your personal interests... and your general appetite for
security ;)

That being said, we totally think that every talk selected for NSC
deserves the
attention of the entire audience. We therefore do stick to a single track
format. That's a kind of respect for speakers.

As a speaker, it doesn't mean you have to lower the bar of your talk. It's
rather the opposite, this is intended to cut down the number of "fillers";
not-so-sexy-talks. We actually encourage highly technical talks and writing
code is somewhat compulsory (...unless you are better at solder ironing and
have an electronic solver !). Don't assume ridiculous prerequisites, but
assume people grasp new concepts quickly (isn't that what hacking is all
about really?).

--[ Disclosure policy:

We consider researchers as outstanding grown adults. We therefore impose
them
the following disclosure policy: DO WHAT YOU WANT.

--[ Programming Committee:

The programming committee plays a central role in ensuring the best
talks make
it to the conference. We are very humbled to have such a great team of
cool and
remarkable engineers giving a bit of their free time to help us build a
decent
conference:

We are interested in world domination 2013. We are glad you are willing
to contribute.

We highly encourage and will favour presentations with demos.

To assess the depth, novelty and relevance of submitted talks, we will
require a 2 to 3 pages whitepaper (as an order of magnitude...) along with
your submission. We know it's a lot of work for speakers, but we'll help
you get to Paris: it's not too bad a deal ;)

We are only accepting submissions in English.

The standard format will be of 35 mins presentation + 10 mins Q&A.

If you think your talk deserves more time, feel free to ask for two slots
(that is extended talk: 80min + 10mins Q&A).

Please note that any talk whose content will be judged commercial or non
vendor
neutral will be rejected and/or interrupted on stage.

Please attach your whitepaper to your submission in one of the
following formats: raw ASCII 7bits text, TeX file, PDF file,
MS office or Open Office document or presentation. (No other
formats will be accepted: target your 0days ;)).

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--[ Deadlines:

The CFP closes on March the 31st, 2013. The earlier you submit, the
better for
all of us ;)

You shall be notified of your acceptance as a speaker by the 15th of April,
2013.

--[ Do I want to talk there anyway?

It's up to you mate. If you like the things we like, you may as well like
the conference. You may want to have a look at the 3 previous editions
of HES
we co-organized and see if it looks like something of interest to you.

We absolutely do encourage you to submit if you have something
interesting to
say. In particular, academic researchers, hobbyists, or just regular
security
enthusiasts of any age and from all over the internet are welcome to
submit.

--[ Greetings:
The No Such Association (NSA) team would like to thank the security
research
community for its continuous support. We would like to thank in particular
members of the Programming Committee, the past speakers, all of the
volonteers as well as all the attendees and the past sponsors, plus the
countless friends, that share our passion and are ready to share some of
their
time with us :)